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Bentley, with his peculiar idiom, had censured “all the 387 stiffness and stateliness, and operoseness of style, quite alien from the character of ‘Phalaris,’ a man of business and despatch.”

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac